The protest was organised by anti-austerity group the People’s Assembly, with the hopes of highlighting with the message that thousands more people could be forced to rely on food banks this winter following the chancellor’s Budget.

The organisation will also collect food from the public in a series of protests across the country on Tuesday, including outside Downing Street which is expected to attract hundreds of activists.

The protest is to highlight those left in food poverty by the 2017 Budget (Picture: i-Image)

The Budget announcement takes place tomorrow (Picture: i-Image)

Sam Fairbairn, national secretary of the People’s Assembly, said: ‘We need a Government that scraps the disastrous plans for Universal Credit, closes tax loopholes and forces the tax avoiders to pay their fair share, to end the public sector pay cap with an increase above inflation, and to make sure our public services are properly funded.’

Anti-austerity group the People’s Assembly said it wanted to make a ‘very public’ statement that Government policies were driving people into poverty.

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Keen to avoid waste, once the mountain of food is displayed outside Downing Street for the day, it will be transported to a Trussell Trust distribution centre.

The Trussell Trust is an organisation that runs a network of more than 400 food banks in the UK. The organisation supplies people in food crisis by providing a parcel of groceries that should last at least three days.